Ciao EmailList Manager was written/designed/programmed by Ben Drushell 10/2000.
It is derived from:
- original work by Ben Drushell
- portions of Ciao Form2Email (C) Ben Drushell in the PHP language
- portions of Bulk E-mailer(C) aka.
Small Business E-mail List Manager(C) aka.
EmailList Manager(C) written and owned by Ben Drushell in the Miva scripting language
Special thanks for all the suggestions, requests, bug notices, translations contributed by users of the Miva versions.
Special thanks to Jaques Desforges and Luskey Greene for Miva code contributions.
Miva is a registered trademark of Miva Corp. and a proprietary cgi-scripting/database language.
PHP (C) by The PHP Development Team is a FREE opensource cgi-scripting language.
MySQL is a registered trademark of MySQL AB and is an opensource database engine.
GNU General Public License was provided by the Free Software Foundation.
GNU is a registered trademark of the Free Software Foundation.
Ciao EmailList Manager Code Contributors:
(date - name - description of contribution - optional means of contact)
2000.12.19 - Wayne Davis - PHP4 compatability changes: removed empty array [] in "ciao_m04.php" and modified "ciao_t.php" because of mysql_insert_id bug in PHP4
2000.12.22 - BD - Pause/Continue bug fix; increased import limit to 30kb files; fixed sending status bar
2000.12.23 - Bob Hurt - Perl code for VERIFY_VIA_SENDMAIL and VERIFY_VIA_DIG contributed by Bob Hurt. Ported to PHP by BD - http://www.bobhurt.com/
2000.12.23 - BD - added additional email verification rountine; added customizable message & subject inserts based on stored subscriber data
2001.01.05 - BD - fixed the VerifyFields bug affecting subscriber updating in alpha 0.17
2001.01.19 - Maxim Maletsky - isolated code error; error limited database password to 8 characters
2001.01.20 - BD - made quantity of additional subscriber fields customizable; made signup and import verification messages customizable; fixed javascript error in user admin
2001.01.21 - BD - fixed the popen error in the SENDMAIL and DIG validation routines
2001.01.29 - BD - added html email sending abilities; modified the ciao template parser; modified the ciao template creation tool
2001.01.30 - Tom Sokolis - isolated the "magic_quotes" incompatibility and contributed code for compensating
2001.01.31 - BD - added code to hinder passing of viruses by html email; added "magic_quotes" detection code
2001.03.14 - Juliano Zabeo Pessini - Bug fix on line 153 of ciao_s03.php
2001.05.01 - BD - Lots of improvements before release of version 0.65
2001.05.07 - BD - replaced quoted-printable with 8bit emails sent (fixes incompatibility with Outlook)
2001.05.08 - BD - fixed link to sending html frame; charset data passing; multi-type send errors
2001.05.10 - BD - fixed a bug that would cause signup form not to display when any block data was in database
This bug only affected 0.65 & 0.67
2001.05.11 - Gerbrand van Dieijen - added MIME-Version 1.0 to html email header for improved compatibility with several email client software
2001.05.18 - BD - fixed the admin link/ data update problem
2001.05.19 - BD - delete (unsubscribe) now requires password, if passwords are being used
2001.05.19 - BD - added "category" variable input, so people can tie a template to a category
2001.05.20 - BD - Admin notification now contains categories subscribed info
2001.05.22 - BD - Added "return-path" field to email headers sent
2001.05.22 - BD - Added php-include header/footer file feature. In ".ciao" files add the code header="head.html" footer="foot.html".
2001.05.22 - BD - DB Update program fixed for categories.
2001.05.22 - BD - Fixed stats listing for custom categories.
2001.05.24 - Ryan Foster - added MIME-Version 1.0 to multi-part email header for improved compatibility with several email client software - http://www.inonmedia.com
2001.05.31 - BD - Removed experimental anti-email-virus code due to over-reactive nature
2001.05.31 - BD - Updated general configuration program to include header/footer file and required/optional text
2001.05.31 - BD - Updated initial setup program to include option of editing/creating template without creating tables.
This feature is for those who want to link to an existing Ciao EmailList Manager Database.
2001.05.31 - BD - Added some enhancement to custom-categories.
2001.06.05 - BD - Added search feature to email list display.
2001.06.13 - BD - Added "unsubscribe from category" feature.
2001.06.13 - BD - Fixed email address duplication bug. Email addresses are now forced to lower-case letters when saving.
2001.06.13 - BD - Added duplication checks to the import feature.
2001.06.13 - BD - Fixed "crypt" bug. (win version does not use crypt)
2001.06.15 - BD - Added sort/search feature to pending list.
2001.06.15 - BD - Added sort feature to regular list display.
2001.06.15 - BD - Created export utility with sort & search features.
2001.06.15 - BD - Added multiple form-field types.
2001.06.19 - BD - Fixed custom category display bug.
2001.06.19 - BD - Replaced buggy get_magic_quotes_runtime.
(It does not work for PHP4.0.4-5)
Function was replaced with PHP4 specific code for ".PHP" and ".PHP4" versions.
If you want to use ".PHP" version on a PHP3 platform, comment out the PHP4 specific
codes located at line 58 of "ciao.php" and line 40 of "ciaoadm.php"
Then uncomment the PHP3 code.
2001.06.22 - BD - Added feature to import so comma is no longer required after import list of just email addresses.
2001.06.24 - BD - Added Error-To email header
2001.06.28 - BD - Fixed "custom category" search and sort bug.
2001.07.04 - BD - Fixed import bug and some more "custom category" bugs.
2001.07.05 - BD - Added category "ALL" that is not seen by user so that custom categories works with all subscribers now.
2001.07.09 - Alexey Semenovykh - Fixed a line error in "ciao_m03.php" that would adversely affect custom categories based on email address in certain circumstances.
Ciao EmailList Manager Translation Contributors:
(date - name - description of contribution - optional means of contact)
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Ciao EmailList Manager Bug Notifications:
(date - name - bug description - optional means of contact)
2001.01.05 - Nigel Bouckley - VerifyFields bug affecting subscriber updating in alpha 0.17
2001.01.21 - Bret Chrismer - Reported that popen command had not totally been ported from perl in SENDMAIL and DIG validation routines. - streetrodder.net
2001.01.29 - Tom Sokolis, Geoff Carter, Taras Tchougai - Helped isolate the "magic_quotes" incompatibility
2001.03.14 - Juliano Zabeo Pessini - Isolated and provided bug fix for line 153 of ciao_s03.php
2001.05.06 - Jimmy Vo and Gerbrand van Dieijen - Notified of incompatibility with Outlook
2001.05.10 - Jorge Catena - Notified of a situation where the signup form would not display - http://www.sursur.com/
2001.05.18 - Dave Ashmore - Notified of three bugs.
1)The category editing admin tool did not work after DB upgrade.
2)The subscriber password field was not always passed into editing form correctly.
3)The custom lists stats was not working. - http://www.djash.com/
2001.06.12 - Jason Chow - Notified of bug where admin login did not work on some servers. (BD - On investigation, some servers
"crypt" passwords larger than database field.) - http://www.jasonchow.com/
2001.06.12 - John G. Pedersen - Discovered an email address duplication error. - http://www.mobilsiden.dk/
2001.06.19 - John G. Pedersen - Discovered a custom category error causing improper display. - http://www.mobilsiden.dk/
2001.06.19 - Werner Fischer - Notified of a get_magic_quotes_runtime bug in PHP4.0.4-5 that adversely affected the software. - http://www.wefi.net/
2001.06.28 - Alexey Semenovykh - Found some errors with "custom categories" relating to sorting and searching.
2001.07.04 - Tony MacDonnell - Found an import error and some "custom category" errors. - http://macdonnell.co.uk/
Ciao EmailList Manager Download Sites:
(download site domain)
http://www.technobreeze.com/
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Enhancements and notifications are welcome.
Contact Ben at: http://www.technobreeze.com/
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